Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 |
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... moved onward and still onward , through boundless groves of evergreen , to Newbern and to Wilmington . " For God's sake , forward it by night and day , " wrote Cornelius Harnett , by the express which sped for Brunswick . Patriots of ...
... moved onward and still onward , through boundless groves of evergreen , to Newbern and to Wilmington . " For God's sake , forward it by night and day , " wrote Cornelius Harnett , by the express which sped for Brunswick . Patriots of ...
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... moving towards the State House . All business was forgotten in the momentous crisis which the coun- try had now reached . No sooner had the members taken their seats than the multitude gathered in a dense mass around the entrance . The ...
... moving towards the State House . All business was forgotten in the momentous crisis which the coun- try had now reached . No sooner had the members taken their seats than the multitude gathered in a dense mass around the entrance . The ...
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... move and excite all who in future time may approach them . But neither of these sources of emotion equals the power with which great moral examples affect the mind . When sublime virtues cease to be abstrac- tions , when they become ...
... move and excite all who in future time may approach them . But neither of these sources of emotion equals the power with which great moral examples affect the mind . When sublime virtues cease to be abstrac- tions , when they become ...
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... to West , which , bursting into States as it moves westward , is swarm- ing through the portals of the Rocky Mountains and winding down their slopes , the name and the memory of Washington on that gracious night will travel with the.
... to West , which , bursting into States as it moves westward , is swarm- ing through the portals of the Rocky Mountains and winding down their slopes , the name and the memory of Washington on that gracious night will travel with the.
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... moving onward to the South , has opened to Greece the lessons of her better days . Can it be that America under such circumstances can betray herself ? Can it be that she is to be added to the catalogue of republics , the inscription ...
... moving onward to the South , has opened to Greece the lessons of her better days . Can it be that America under such circumstances can betray herself ? Can it be that she is to be added to the catalogue of republics , the inscription ...
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